We invite you to submit your "Pedigree" for the Rucker Family Project Patriarch page. (You don’t have to be a test participant to post your family pedigree.)

There are two ways to make your pedigree available to the project administrator for posting on the Patriarch Page:1. Send the pedigree by email directly to carrie@worldfamilies.net in the simplified form described below(If you send it this way, your pedigree will only be posted on the Patriarch Page, and will not be included in the Pedigree Forum) Be sure to include Email address you wish to be posted with the pedigree Kit number of the project participant whose pedigree this is Name, birthdate, birthplace, spouse for each generation (direct male line).

2. Log-in to post your pedigree on the Pedigree Forum.By posting your pedigree on the forum, you are making it available for the Project Administrator to post it on the Patriarch Page, along with your contact information, and kit number (or code identity number).

oProvide the kit number and/or project code identity number if pedigree is for a tested participant

oUse surname with each generation

oDon’t use all caps

oDon’t include anyone whose birthdate is after 1910, for privacy concerns.

oDon’t number the generations

Scroll down to the last posting on this forum and click "reply". Post your pedigree in the box provided, and click "Post".

If you do not see a"reply" tab, it means you have lost your log in and will need to log in again in order to post. Go back to the project home page, log in again, and return to the pedigree forum. Login should hold the second time.

Hi, Christopher. You seem to share some common ancestors with Alice (Peter, b c1675, John b 1701, and John b 1724) so I linked your pedigree to hers on the Patrarch page. You should contact her if you are not already in touch, to share information. Good luck. Hope you are both part of the DNA project.Marilynhttp://www.worldfamilies.net/surnames/r/rucker/pats.html

What is your documentation that Peter Rucker, Immigrant was married to Elizabeth Fielding? The Rucker Family Society's official position is that Elizabeth's maiden name is not known. If you are copying her maiden name out of a book, that is insufficient to say for sure that Elizabeth's maiden name is Fielding. You must have a marriage document or some other document to proove her name was Fielding. We would all appreciate anyone who could proove a maiden name for Elizabeth.

William Curray changed his name from Charles when he was naturalized in 1861. We believe that he was orphaned young and brought up by a Joseph and Mary Curray and came first to Canada in 1840 with an "uncle", then moved to Michigan and finally to Iowa. Could he have been born a Rucker?

The following post, "Re: Rucker Family Pedigree" by (Don A. Dyer) has been reported by jwb Peter Rucker's wife was named Elizabeth as written in many documents including Peter Rucker's Will. We do not know her maiden name. Note: the maiden name Fielding was written in Edythe Whitley's book (1932) and later she admitted that she made it up and it was not true. Unfortunately the book is still circulating that Rucker's wife was Elizabeth Fielding. One of the important things in genealogy is proving a source and Peter Rucker's wife's maiden name is just not known. Peter Rucker arrived in Virginia in 1700, married and began his family. He never went to England (that we know of) and we do not know his place of origin.